Classic picture—40 years ago the NCAA would have descended and demanded to know the source of the $20 on the table and summarily placed the football program on probation.
Perhaps this is naive but the Big Ten authorities would likely look with disfavor with an intra-conference coach poaching which would result in the cannibalizing (even temporarily) of the poachee. A fair-minded commissioner would make it known that Michigan needs to find its ethical safe-harbor...
At some point Michigan’s pretensions of being a Midwestern Ivy may collide with the successive athletic scandals. It could force a reckoning in Ann Arbor.
In a different time & galaxy Michigan hired Gary Moeller after he failed at Illinois. Of course, Moeller was joined at the hip with Schembechler going back to Miami of Ohio & was his choice to succeed him.
Nothing like beating the Badgers & a couple weeks later having a highly rated recruit from Wisconsin named frosh All-America: for Minnesota. The hits keep coming…
Nothing like Big Ten officials joining the fun when a blue blood gets on a roll at home—might as well don Purdue jerseys—it’s been happening for decades.